--- ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes 2005/11/12 06:14:51 1.109 +++ ray/doc/notes/ReleaseNotes 2005/12/28 18:35:41 1.112 @@ -1544,3 +1544,12 @@ Made rtcontrib flush output when handed a zero-length to match behavior of rtrace. Improved color scale for falsecolor output. + +Added threshold test for Fresnel approximation to prevent its use +on smooth surfaces with unrealistically low specularities (less than 1.8%). +Water has a specular reflectance of 2.1% at room temperture. + +Removed NICE macro settings in rpict and rtrace, which was slowing down +the processes under Mac OS X (10.4) by about 60% due to processor napping. + +Made xform, replmarks and rad2mgf handle quoted modifiers and names properly.